Job summary
- Main area
- Medical - Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
- Grade
- Specialty Doctor
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 10 sessions per week
- Job ref
- 110-MD120-0424
- Employer
- Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Ty Llidiard, Princess of Wales Hospital
- Town
- Bridgend
- Salary
- £52,542 - £82,418 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 12/05/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Specialty Doctor in Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Specialty Doctor
We provide healthcare services to people living in Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil and Rhondda Cynon Taf county borough areas, serving a population of around 450,000. We are ideally situated between Wales’s capital city, Porthcawl to the west, and the stunning scenery in the Brecon Beacons.
Our vision is to care for our communities and patients by preventing ill-health, promoting better health, providing excellent services and reducing the need for inpatient care wherever possible through the provision of strengthened home, primary and community care.
We value the diversity of our staff and welcome applications from people from protected groups under the Equality Act 2010, this specifically includes age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/reassignment, race/nationality, religion/belief, disability, pregnancy and maternity and marriage and civil partnership.
Cwm Taf Morgannwg is a Living Wage Employer.
Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.
All applicants are invited to apply in Welsh or English, and no preference will be given to applications submitted in either language.
Please be advised that there is a temporary top up for Bands 1,2 and 3 to reflect the incorporation of the top up to the living wage of £12 per hour - £23,465 per annum. This temporary top up will be in place until the annual pay uplift for 2024/25 is confirmed
Job overview
Applicants are invited for a Speciality Doctor in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry to join the CAMHS Inpatient Unit, Ty Llidiard, Princess of Wales Hospital, Bridgend.
This is a substantive post based in the Ty Llidiard Inpatient Unit, Princess of Wales Hospital, Bridgend. Due to the geographic spread of the service, the role would require a significant amount of travelling. Training and supervision are available. All staff are encouraged to develop their skills and competence.
There is an opportunity to work with a dynamic and transformational service committed to delivering high quality services for the population in south, mid and west Wales.
Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.
Main duties of the job
The appointee will be a full time Speiciality Doctor working within the CAMHS Inpatient Unit.
The appointee will
- Be part of a multi-disciplinary team providing a Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service.
- Develop working relationships relationships with the Consultant of the Unit, colleagues from allied disciplines in addition to other teams and partner agencies in the Locality and Network area.
- Work clinically with children, young people and their families/carers and other allied professionals.
- Contribute to the development of knowledge and skills within the Service through teaching/research.
- Meet the needs of trainees placed within the Service mainly from the disciplines of psychiatry and nursing.
- Act in a consultative capacity in relation to other agencies with regard to the mental health needs of children and families.
- Contribute to the training programmes of other agencies/training establishments.
- Maintain professional standards within the Service.
Assist and promote training/research
Working for our organisation
Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board is part of the NHS Wales family. Our Health Board provides primary, secondary and community health and wellbeing services to around 450,000 people living in three County Boroughs: Bridgend Merthyr Tydfil, and Rhondda Cynon Taf.
We live by our core values:
- We listen, learn and improve
- We treat everyone with respect
- We all work together as one team
We are a proud local employer; around 80% of our 15000 workforce live within our region, making our staff not only our lifeblood of our organisation but of the diverse communities that we serve.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You will be able to find a full Job Description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click apply now to view in Trac
Person specification
1. Education/ Qualifications and training
Essential criteria
- MB, BS or recognised equivalent. GMC Full Registration / Licence to Practice. Section 12(2) approval under MHA 1983 or willingness to undertake training / approval process 4 years postgraduate training (or equivalent on part-time or flexible basis), 3 of which in a specialty training programme in a relevant specialty or as a fixed term specialty trainee in a relevant specialty or shall have relevant experience or competencies.
2. Knowledge, personal skills and abilities
Essential criteria
- Effective communication skills – verbal and written. Up do date with current practices in child and adolescent psychiatry. Ability to take independent clinical decisions when necessary and to seek advice from senior doctors as appropriate.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Welsh language skills are desirable
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dr Krishna Menon
- Job title
- Consultant
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01656 674951
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